Navception vs Simple Floating Menu

About Navception Navception: The act of embedding a pre-constructed WordPress Menu inside another WordPress Menu. Navception adds a simple feature to WordPress Menus, but opens the door to powerful possibilities. New to your WordPress Nav Menu editor, is a box that lets you add menus into your menus! This allows you to create one menu to include as a submenu once in another menu, multiple times in another menu, or multiple times in multiple menus. What makes this so powerful is that if you decide that your submenu needs another link added to it, you only have to update it in one place! Navception, a simple concept with powerful results! Let’s look at a couple of scenarios: Without Navception If you have a submenu you need repeated across your site: First you have to add all the links everywhere you want the submenu, then to update the submenu you have to modify the links everywhere the submenu exists. If you have too many menu items in your menu: You have to pick and choose which menu items are removed to make room for new ones. With Navception If you have a submenu you need repeated across your site: First you create the submenu as a stand-alone WordPress menu and embed it where you need it once, then to update the submenu you only need to modify the links in the stand-alone menu. If you have too many menu items in your menu: You make some of the submenus separate WordPress menus and embed those new menus into the original menu to make room for more menu items. Navception’s Inception Navception became a thought when working on a client’s main menu. This menu was a typical 3 level menu, with two submenus that were repeated 4 times each. Those submenus were a hassle to add and a pain to maintain. When I realized that I wanted a plugin that allowed me to create a submenu once and include it as a menu item in a separate menu, I was surprised to find that no such plugin existed. Navception became a necessity when working on that same client’s main menu. This menu became so large that I received the following warning: “You are approaching the post variable limit imposed by your server configuration. Exceeding this limit may automatically delete menu items when you save.” It turns out that every Nav Menu Item in the WordPress Admin area has roughly 8 inputs associated with it. One of the aforementioned submenus contained 7 menu items, or 56 inputs. Using Navception, I created that submenu as a stand-alone WordPress menu, then included it as 1 menu item in the client’s main menu. This reduced the inputs generated by that submenu from 56 to 8. Since that submenu was included 4 times, I not only avoided the Post Variable Limit, but I also made the menu easier to manage. Dangers of Navception When embedding menus in other menus, you must take care not to include the same menu in itself. When done directly or indirectly, this can cause your website to go into an infinite loop (aka Limbo) when attempting to display the menu. I added some safeguards to keep you from accidentally causing this to happen, though I’m only 90% confident that I covered all scenarios. If you ever put your website into Limbo, you only need to remove the menu you embedded, then please make a post in the support forum telling me what you did so I can cover that case as well.

Simple Floating Menu is a free WordPress plugin that puts a floating sticky menu of icon buttons on your site. Each button gets an icon, a link and a tooltip, and the whole bar can sit anywhere on the screen. It ships 5 icon packs with more than 12,000 icons between them, and you can add as many buttons as you like. Place the bar in any of 8 positions, run it down the side of the screen or across it, pick from 9 button shapes, and set the tooltip type from over 1,400 Google fonts. Everything is set from one screen with a live preview beside it, so you can see the bar change as you work. Want to test the dashboard settings without installing on your website? Test Dashboard Settings Here Main features 5 icon packs with more than 12,000 icons between them Unlimited buttons Open each link in the same tab or a new one 8 positions on the screen, with your own offset values Run the bar vertically or horizontally 9 button shapes Set button height and width, icon size, icon position and a button shadow Button and icon colours with their own hover colours, plus tooltip background and text colours Over 1,400 Google fonts for the tooltip text, with full typography settings Serve Google fonts from your own server to help with GDPR Link anywhere: pages on your site, external addresses, or an anchor to a section on the same page Turn the menu on and off without deleting your setup Export and import your settings to move a bar from one site to another Live preview beside the settings Hooks for developers Translation ready Looking for more than one bar? Super Floating & Flying Menu is the premium version of this plugin. It keeps everything above and adds side panel menus, full screen menus, one page navigation and a library of over 100 ready made designs. Here is how the two compare. Menus — Free: one floating bar. Premium: as many menus as you like, each with its own design and its own rules. Ready made designs — Free: none, you build the bar yourself. Premium: over 100 menus to import in one click and edit as your own. Kinds of menu — Free: a floating bar. Premium: floating bars, quarter, half and full circular fans, a one page navigation indicator, side panels, skew panels, full screen menus and navigation icon menus. Submenus — Free: a flat row of buttons. Premium: submenus up to three levels deep. Icons — Free: 5 packs, 12,000+ icons. Premium: 7 sets, 13,000+ icons, animated hamburger icons, or your own images. Animation — Free: none. Premium: 12 ways for the bar to appear, 29 hover and 12 idle animations for the buttons, and 37 entrance and 37 exit animations for panels. Where it appears — Free: on every page. Premium: chosen pages, post types, archives, search and 404, by login state, by user role, by device and by language. When it appears — Free: always. Premium: after the visitor scrolls, hidden again while they scroll down, or on a schedule of dates and weekdays. Panel contents — Free: buttons and tooltips. Premium: a header logo, a search form, a social row, footer text, item descriptions and badges, or a panel built in Elementor. Moving a setup — Free: export and import your settings. Premium: export, import and duplicate any single menu, including duplicating it as the other menu type. Get Super Floating & Flying Menu | See the demos Premium Upgrade The comparison is on the Description tab. This is the longer list of what Super Floating & Flying Menu gives you. Everything in the premium version Over 100 ready made menus you can import with one click, then edit as your own Build menus without touching Appearance > Menus: each menu is its own item, with a builder screen for its items and settings side by side Unlimited menus on one site, each with its own design and its own display rules 14 floating bar layouts, including quarter, half and full circular fans and a one page navigation indicator with 13 styles Side panel, skew side panel, full screen and navigation icon menus, with submenus up to three levels deep Panels with a colour, image or video background, a header logo, a search form, a social row and your own footer text 7 icon packs with more than 13,000 icons, or upload your own image icons 11 button shapes and 12 show and hide animations for the bar 29 button hover animations and 12 idle animations to draw the eye 37 panel entrance and 37 exit animations, plus 6 wave animations for full screen menus Set the colours of every button in one place instead of one at a time, and give the tooltips their own hover colours Show a menu only after the visitor scrolls, and hide it again while they scroll down Schedule a menu by date range and by days of the week, for offers that run themselves Show or hide a menu by page, post type, archive, login state or user role Hide a menu on desktop, tablet or mobile Build the panel contents with Elementor if you prefer a page builder Over 1,400 Google fonts with full typography settings on every text element Import, export and duplicate any menu, including duplicating it as the other menu type RTL ready and multilingual ready, tested with Polylang and WPML Buy Super Floating & Flying Menu | See the demos Pre sales questions are welcome at [email protected]